First, there was Rod Parsley saying that Satan has been messing around with his bank accounts and needs a massive infusion of cash to fight his demonic plan, here. Now, fellow Evangelical pastor Rick Warren has asked for roughly a million dollars from his faithful due to a few end of the year shortfalls in cash flow. Given these calls to the faithful, I wish to add my own discovery of a demonic plan to deny me of ready cash and call upon everyone on this blog to send me money immediately to fight for righteous and redemptive blogging.
Warren, who was the controversial choice of President Barack Obama to given the inaugural prayer, sent an “urgent letter” to all of the parishioners to the Saddleback Church Web stating, “With 10 percent of our church family out of work due to the recession, our expenses in caring for our community in 2009 rose dramatically while our income stagnated.” While not blaming Satan ala Parsley, Warren warned followers that “the bottom dropped out” and that “[o]n the last weekend of 2009, our total offerings were less than half of what we normally receive — leaving us $900,000 in the red for the year.”
Warren is the author of numerous books, including the best-selling “The Purpose Driven Life.” The purpose now appears to remain solvent at Saddleback.
For the full story, click here.
Stan has been working over time and does not have a dime to shine. Now Satan has taken Stan’s money to make sure Warren has a new honey. Or at least a Take Out Honey.
Shouldn’t this be renamed to Fleecing the Faithful? The folks after all are his sheeple? Sheep, Pastor, People?
Here’s Mr Warren on charity: “Mr. Warren continues, “You have to develop a complex economy, where one says I’ll make the hooks, I’ll catch the fish, I’ll can the fish, I’ll skin the fish, I’ll fry the fish, I’ll do the fish accounting, I’ll build the boats. I’ll franchise the fish markets. The answer to poverty is business development, not charity. . . . Trade, not aid.”
So I am wondering where is all that money really going to?
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121944811327665223.html
P.S. Contains an interesting quote about Jews most certainly going to hell. Sorry JT, but them’s the rules!
Send your money to Jesus but make the checks out to “Rick Warren.” Hey… I like that!
This is a fairly common tactic among large evangelical churches.
For example, the largest Southern Baptist Church in Pensacola, Florida, Olive Road Baptist Church, has a pastor who calls on his congregation to give 100% of their income for one month a year — “and see how the Lord blesses.”
The implication is that you will not be “blessed” if you do not give. And if you don’t give, you show a “lack of faith.”
In the past Rick Warren has been highly critical of “Prosperity Gospel” preachers (i.e., Rod Parsley) calling it a “false gospel” — so Warren has to be careful not to appear to embrace what he has already labeled a heresy.
Of course, his church has to remain solvent — maybe Warren should give 100% of his income?
The Left Reverend Brother Turley,
To legitimatize your request from us faithful brethrens, you must state an outrageous sum of money to ensure us that you are religiously truthful.
ektachrome,
What a wonderful idea. I’m certain Pastor Warren could make up the difference and then some with his yearly salary. Being such a charity minded man, so humble, so unconcerned with worldly things, he will surely, gladly give up his salary for next year in service to this most desperate emergency.
And the “faithful” sheep will send the money and never know they’ve been fleeced.
And the “faithful” sheep will send the money and never know they’ve been fleeced—once again.
Test, 1, 2, 3, 4 this is a test.
Where do I send the money?
Bob, Esq.
Contact me off of the list. I am setting up a special account as we speak. I need a million 5 for the start of the mission on the small island off the coast of new found money.
No one bother me for the next few minutes as I am constructing my whip of chords.
“So he made a whip out of cords and drove all from the Temple, both sheep and cattle; he scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables. To those who sold doves he said: ‘Get out of here.’ (John 2:13-16)”
Snap … crack … thwack, Snap … crack … thwack
You’re welcome.
Where do I send you money for the supplies, Blouise? You should start a website called: John 2:13-16.
I wonder how much money Warren made last year and if this might refill the till.
(If you give to this man or church, I will pray for you and your stupidity)
“Where do I send you money for the supplies, Blouise? You should start a website called: John 2:13-16.”
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Don’t do that! All of them *Johns* will think that it is a “dating/escort” site…
Naivety has no end.
Mammon needs your dollars! Er, um, ah, Jesus! Yeah, Jesus needs your dollars!
Ricky? Have you ever read about the money changers? No? Didn’t think so.
Interesting poetry I heard at a party last night. This is a bit of spoken word by the metal band Stone Sour.
WARNING: Contains language some might find harsh.
Good to see someone’s picking up the slack for Reverend Ike now that he’s met his maker.
Jill and FFL,
“Where do I send you money for the supplies, Blouise? You should start a website called: John 2:13-16.”
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Don’t do that! All of them *Johns* will think that it is a “dating/escort” site…
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What a brilliant idea … a Holy Roller Madam.
Seriously, one can do some very creative, idealistic, and good work through a web site if one is sufficiently committed to a just cause. For instance … cleaning up our corrupt senate. Hmmm, an idea has just sparked in my head ……………
Agreed! If you want to get back just about every ill-gotten dime, this website is the place to do it!
Don’t know which is worse, these Muslim punks intent on avenging an uncomplimentary cartoon of their prophet or this Christan charlatan putting the squeeze on his flock for a couple of extra bucks.
Even those that claim to conversate with the Allknowing and Almighty somehow seem like they can’t handle cash very well
Jericho,
God has spoken to these people of the cloth. They have to make an Impression on these folks. As Robert Tilton stated one time when asked about his largeness in living. His Estate(s) in Texas, Florida, California, Hawaii and a few tropical Islands places and how he could justify spending peoples money the way that he did. His response was well, God Never meant for me to be poor.
“Tilton built an empire that, at its peak, took in as much as $65 million per year. The end came when an ABC’s news program found out that the prayer request letters he promised to pray over were being trashed, unread. All of Tilton’s mail was sent directly to his Tulsa bank.”
http://www.raptureready.com/rap39.html
Surely a church needing one million at the end of the year has to be put in context. In light of the gargantuan budget Saddleback generates for a congregation of 25,000, this is not a desperate plea for widows to cash their last bond of Jesus will evaporate. Percentage wise this deficit can be counted as small and not unusual. Most churches send out a December request for gifts to shore up the budget. It just so happens that Warren’s church is a bit bigger and generates a bit more publicity. There is no smoke here and no fire.
Don Bryant,
You any kin to Anita?
AY,
I was thinking mafioso.
“No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.” -Matthew 6:24
EvilPoet,
Thanks for that quote. It was on my mind on an earlier posting but I was too hungover to care about looking it up.
Dear Pastor Rick,
I have been praying for an answer to your money woes and by Jesus, I have found it. You need to make an immediate conversion. Like they say—”follow the money”.
“Scientology sees historic growth”
http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100102/NEWS10/1020350
Yours in Christ of the Dollar (soon to be Xenu of the Dollar),
Jill
The ignorant were fleeced to the tune of 2.4 million dollars.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/03/rick-warren-takes-in-24-m_n_409688.html
Way to go, Team Mammon!
Evilpoet:
““No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.” -Matthew 6:24.”
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Agreed. I think ol’ Pastor Rick has gone from the former to the latter. Maybe that is why they call the Mormons, the Church of Latter Day Saints? Seems like Mammon’s flock is growing. On Bible verses, I always liked this one:
“And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.”
Matt.19:24
Maybe Pastor Rick got a free pass or a really big needle–like the Space Needle in Seattle!
Buddha:
“The ignorant were fleeced to the tune of 2.4 million dollars.”
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“But a fool and his money soon go separate ways,
And you found a fool lyin’ in a daze,
Ha Ha woman what you gonna do,
You destroyed all the virtues that the Lord gave you”:
I was hoping contributions would continue to decline; as people became more aware of what this hypocrite/creep really supports.
is it saddleback church or brokeback church? maybe the preacher should give jimmy swaggart a call.
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This applies to all religions.